Creative Writing for Critical Thinking

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Hélène Edberg

   Pages 1-16

3. Creative Writing and Critical Thinking: From a Romantic to a Sociocritical View on Creative Writing

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   Pages 17-43

4. Basic Outlines of the Research

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   Pages 45-81

5. Discoursal Identity and Subject

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   Pages 83-112

6. Text as a Site of Negotiation: A Model for Text Analysis

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   Pages 113-142

7. Writers’ Positions

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   Pages 143-232

8. Critical Metareflection

   • Hélène Edberg

   Pages 233-270

9. A Follow-Up Study: Creative Writing for Critical Metareflection in a Different Context

   • Hélène Edberg

   Pages 271-318

10. Concluding Discussion About Discoursal Identity and Learning Critical Thinking Through Creative Writing

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    Pages 319-358

11. Creative Writing for Critical Metareflection: Some Educational Implications

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    Pages 359-382

12. Back Matter

    Pages 383-416

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This book explores narrative imagination and emotion as resources for learning critical meta-reflection. The author examines the learning trajectories of several students as they engage in learning to think critically through a new approach to creative writing, and details how learning through writing is linked to new discoursal identities which are trialled in the writing process. In doing so, she analyses the processes of expansion and change that result from the negotiations involved in learning through writing. This volume offers a completely new approach to creative writing, including useful practical advice as well as a solid theoretical base. It is sure to appeal to students of creative writing and discourse analysis as well as applied linguistics and language as identity.

• discourse analysis
• identity
• textual analysis
• meta-reflection
• creativity
• creative writing
• identity negotiation
• critical thinking
• literary diction

“This book is a stimulating and innovative contribution to the field of creative writing. By showing how narrative imagination can be used for critical thinking it breaks new ground. It is a must-read not only for university lecturers in composition but for any scholar in writing research interested in exploring the negotiation of discoursal identities.” (Per Ledin, Södertörn University, Sweden)

• Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden

  Hélène Edberg

​Hélène Edberg is Senior Lecturer and Educational Developer at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research interests are based around applied linguistics and rhetoric. She has been teaching creative writing for over a decade, and is particularly interested in identification processes linked to learning through writing. 

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